A 'new' Tennessee Williams play reaches Broadway

Stellar! A "new" Tennessee Williams play is coming to Broadway, almost 25 years after the writer's death.

Williams' old friend Gore Vidal is completing his unfinished "In Masks Outrageous and Austere" for a production to be directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

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The play centers on a billionairess and is "a dark look at the masks that are worn by corporations and society," according to an insider.

The ambitious project is being backed by the Halcyon Company, with an eye to turning it into a film. A rep for the company said an opening date for the play has not yet been set.

Coincidentally, Halcyon partners Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek were at the Dazed and Confused magazine Fashion Week party at The Box Sunday night. But it was their other property — rights to the next "Terminator" sequel — that most interested the actor-heavy crowd, which included Heath Ledger.

"The next 'Terminator' has been cast with an undisclosed Hollywood heartthrob, but the leading lady is still up for grabs," says a source.

"Chloe Sevigny and Rachel Weisz personally inquired to Anderson and Kubicek about the role at the party."

Asleep at the switch

Lauren Conrad might not want to take her eye off her new boyfriend, "Desperate Housewives'" Josh Henderson.

The couple arrived hand in hand at the Belvedere Sky Villa Suite after the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas Sunday night.

Unfortunately, the free vodka may have taken its toll, and our girl "appeared to be nodding off," according to a witness.

"Around 3:30 a.m. [Monday], she literally fell over in her chair backwards with her legs up," laughs the witness. "I've never seen that happen before."

But while Conrad drowsed, Henderson played. He seemed particularly taken by a bikini-clad model called Taylor who was working in the suite.

"He had his hands all over her," says the spy. "At one point, he picked her up and was bouncing her."

Surely there must be an easier way to mix a cocktail?

Fashion's tennis victims

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Anna Wintour 's love of tennis has been fraying the nerves of some designers, who wish the Vogue editrix spent more time at Fashion Week and less at the U.S. Open.

"Anna's presence at a show is like a stamp of approval," says one fashionista. "It gets more attention for the designer, and if she likes what she sees, she can make them a star."

A snitch says rising designer Derek Lam tried to push back his Sunday show to allow Wintour time to get back from Flushing. "But some of the models were committed to walk for Diane von Furstenberg, so the show had to go on without her."

New York Minute

Larry King and his seventh wife, Shawn, celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary over the weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival. At an event for his eponymous Cardiac Foundation, she joked to the crowd: "I'm the only wife to make it into double digits, and I'll be the last wife!"

U.S. Open champ Roger Federer was spotted at MercBar on Sunday night, celebrating with friends (including Mr. Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale ) until 4 a.m. and closing down the iconic SoHo bar.

Disgraced Idaho Sen. Larry Craig is getting laughs on Broadway. On Sunday, "Spamalot" actor Rick Holmes (who plays the Knight Who Says Ni) modified his lines to explain: "There is a series of foot and hand signals that go like this. First I tap-tap-tap my foot, and then I slide it under the stall till it's just about touching yours, and then I reach down and I swipe my hand under the stalls three times — and that's how we know it's on."

Don't Shoot the Messenger

Which famous British vocalist, now happily settled down and living in the States, made a living selling Ecstasy in London nightclubs during his '90s career slump?